I could not, and I did not feel disposed to, appeal any further.

If I had, how could I tell that the second and third judgment would be more favourable than the first?
Then what would have been the result?
No; I had nothing for it but to wrap myself in my own integrity.

By dint of resolution I became invulnerable.

I resolved to go on to the end, trusting as I could to my own anticipations of the whole, and bidding the world wait its time before it should be admitted to the consult.
I began my narrative, as is the more usual way, in the third person.

But I speedily became dissatisfied.